1827 in Ireland

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Events

• 19–25 April - Public theological debates in Dublin between Revs. R. T. P. Pope (Protestant) and Thomas Maguire (Roman Catholic).^[1]
• 24 September (Feast of Our Lady of Mercy) - Catherine McAuley opens an institution for destitute women and orphans and a school for the poor in Dublin.^[2]
• The British Army establishes barracks at Beggars Bush (Dublin).
• Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin begins his diary, later published as Cín Lae Amhlaoibh.^[3]

Arts and literature

• Sydney, Lady Morgan, publishes her romantic novel with political overtones, The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys, in London.

Births

• 5 February - Peter Lalor, leader of the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Australia (died 1889).
• 5 May - Thomas Francis Hendricken, first Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island (died 1886).
• 29 May - Timothy Daniel Sullivan, journalist, politician and poet, wrote the Irish national hymn God Save Ireland (died 1914).
• 3 September - John Drew, actor (died 1862).
• 10 December - Eugene O'Keefe, businessman and philanthropist in Canada (died 1913).

Full date unknown

• Bernard Diamond, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Bolandshahr, India (died 1892).
• Patrick Weston Joyce, historian and musicologist (died 1914).
• John Lucas, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1861 in New Zealand (died 1892).
• Mary Ward, scientist (died 1869).

Deaths

• 14 November - Thomas Addis Emmet, lawyer and politician, member of United Irishmen (born 1764).

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